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At their father’s wake, a young paper-factory worker had said, It’s impossible he’s gone. And that man had been right—that had been an impossible loss. Sylvie was an impossible loss too. But perhaps what felt impossible was leaving that ...more
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Marie-Helene Bertino
“Human life is quick. I do not mean: Life is short. I mean: The reason we feel like certain significant days happened only yesterday is because they did. Many of us have bodies that age preposterously out of proportion with how young we are. It’s like aging in theater time. We’re all seven-year-olds hired to play the parts of adults. A decade is not long. Two decades is not long. We say it is because we weigh it against the end of our life span. Our life spans are short and do not give us time to feel temporally in proportion.”
Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

George Orwell
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
George Orwell, 1984

Marie-Helene Bertino
“The human life span was perfectly designed to be brief but to at times feel endless. A set of years that pass in a minute, eternity in an afternoon. Yet in the same way competing weather fronts produce a climate that’s right for a tornado, brevity versus eternity (the push-pull that contains everything) is the condition for romantic love, sorrow, betrayal, joy. Countless meaningless profound transactions.”
Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino
“Adina hasn’t experienced romantic love like the ones portrayed in movies, or a more realistic love like the ones portrayed in more realistic movies. But to love a mother who grew alongside her. A friend when she left the Earth. To love a dog. To love vocation.”
Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino
“To reach the end of your life and wish you had time for a few other roads — what could be more human?”
Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

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